The Conference of Socialist Economists (CSE) http://www.cseweb.org.uk/
is an international, democratic membership organisation committed to developing
a materialist critique of capitalism, unconstrained by conventional academic
divisions between subjects. CSE has organised and supported conferences and
seminars and publishes the Sage journal Capital & Class http://cnc.sagepub.com/
three times a year.

The CSE South Group is a new network of researchers and
activists mirroring the CSE Transpennine Group which runs across the north of Britain
initiated by Capital and Class Editorial Board members Stuart Shields and Greig
Charnock. We will be organising workshops where people present work and hold
discussions on topics that concern the CSE and our journal.

The CSE South Group will hold a launch event on Friday the
25th October at MiddlesexUniversity. Our speakers
will be Professor Martin Upchurch, who will present ‘Towards the New Workplace
Dystopia’; Dr Owen Worth, Managing Editor for Capital & Class, who will
speak about ‘The Crisis of Capital’ and Dr Phoebe Moore, Editorial Board member
for Capital & Class and convenor for the CSE South Group who will speak
about ‘Cognitive Capitalism and the Quantified Worker’.

We will also hold a Roundtable called ‘Contemporary
Conditions of Capital’ where we will discuss and debate issues in contemporary
conditions of capital including mental health and work, global production
networks, commodification of education, safety at work, migration and much
more. Speakers on the roundtable will include Peter Hough, author of 'Valuing
Culture by Ignoring it: Relativism and Human Rights' and 'Who's Securing Whom?
The need for International Relations to Embrace Human Security'; Elizabeth
Cotton who has written Global Unions Global Business (with Richard Croucher)
and initiator of: http://survivingwork.org/ ; and Clive
Boddy, author of Corporate Psychopaths: Organisational Destroyers.

If you come along you will have the chance to meet
individuals on the Capital & Class
Editorial Board and a wide range of other researchers and activists.

This will be the first of many workshops run by the CSE
South Group. These events will encourage networking across activists, trade
unionists, newer researchers and the established cadre who can learn from one
another, think together and act in solidarity toward a transformed world.

About Me

I am a Visiting Fellow in the College of Social Science at the University of Lincoln. I was previously a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Education at Anglia Ruskin University (2014-15). Prior to that, I was previously a Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at the University of Northampton. My interests are in Marxist educational theory, the future of the human and social time. The Rikowski family web site, The Flow of Ideas can be found at: http://www.flowideas.co.uk,
My Wordpress blog, 'All that is Solid for Glenn Rikowski' is at: http://rikowski.wordpress.com,
Glenn Rikowski @ Academia: http://independent.academia.edu/GlennRikowski